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9 Rules of Stand Against Social Network Addiction
How to manage Social Network Addiction
Classmates.com, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Habbo, hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, LiveJournal, MyLife.com, MySpace, Tagged.com, Twitter… Every day social networks steal the time and life energy from people. There are some people who live into these networks day and night. Psychologists name this Social Network Addiction.
Have you or not this kind of addiction, believe you or not that you need to be careful with sharing you time, we propose to you 9 rules of stand against social networks addiction.
If you have more friends in social network than in your real life, we advice you read theses rules.
1. Redefine social network
Social networks are the tools but not the lifestyles. Use it but don’t let them use you.
2. Monitor your time
Set a limit and track a time. When time is up, logout. Don’t worry if something left undone. Tomorrow you’ll have the time to finish all your business.
3. Go for a walk
You need to relax. Go outside, look at the trees and clouds, meet peoples. Working with computer all the time can harm your health, so don’t forget to do pauses.
4. Do not double yourself
Do not subscribe in the same type of social network. Limit your memberships. It saves your time.
5. Use networks effectively
Do not add to friends everyone. Choose only people with the same interest. Try to limit the number of your friends. It’s impossible to communicate with hundreds people. Use your time smartly.
6. Set out the priorities
Log in only when you finished your work or during the lunch-break. It increase your productivity at work.
7. Do not procrastinate
Sometimes we have the work that we don’t want to do. And we begin to procrastinate, do anything but not the work. Do not log in. Be strong. Do the work first.
8. Do not use cellpnone applications
Get some rest. Use your social networks only when you are at computer. You really don’t need Facebook or something else on your mobile.
9. Make your real life
When we use social networks all the time we forget about real conversation. Just call your friends (don’t send them message, call them), go for a date, spent your time with family and friends.
Use the social networks and don’t let them to use you.
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